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Magnetic Stimulation Boosts Muscle’s Cancer-Fighting Power

11 March 2024

N2CR members Associate Professor Alfredo Franco-Obregon and Dr. Alex Tai Yee Kit discovered that subjecting skeletal mus...

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Revealing Mitochondrial Secret to Cancer Therapy Resistance

8 March 2024

New, collaborative work from researchers’ team led by Dr. Shruti Bhatt at National University of Singapore and Dr. Let...

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Prof Ashok’s message on World Cancer Day 2024

7 February 2024

Listen to Prof Ashok’s short snippet on the difficulty of treating cancer and how researchers are working to overc...

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Identified: Proteins’ role in the activation of a gene driving cancer growth

31 January 2024

A hallmark of cancer cells is the ability to grow indefinitely, which in most tumors depends on the enzyme telomerase. P...

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Dynamic altruistic cooperation within breast tumors

28 December 2023

Social behaviors such as altruism, where one self-sacrifices for collective benefits, critically influence an organismâ€...

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Spatiotemporal genomic profiling of intestinal metaplasia reveals clonal dynamics of gastric cancer progression

28 December 2023

Intestinal metaplasia (IM), often symptomless, poses a six-fold increased risk of stomach cancer. In this cross-institut...

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Histone Methyltransferase NSD2 Activates PKCα to Drive Metabolic Reprogramming and Lenalidomide Resistance in Multiple Myeloma

28 November 2023

Multiple myeloma cells adapt to the harsh bone marrow environment by changing their metabolism. This change affects how ...

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Alterations to DNA methylation patterns induced by chemotherapy treatment are associated with negative impacts on the olfactory pathway

27 November 2023

Exposure to chemotherapy can change “chemical tags” in our DNA. These tags don’t change the actual DN...

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Transcriptional repression by a secondary DNA binding surface of DNA topoisomerase I safeguards against hypertranscription

22 November 2023

A team of scientists, led by N2CR member Dr. Tee Wee Wei, has identified the enzyme DNA topoisomerase I (TOP1) as a key ...

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